If we’re breaking out the old school SNES RPGs, there’s a list of great ones, with Chrono Trigger being the top 5.

Others (in no particular order):

• Secret of Mana
• Secret of Evermore
• Zelda: Link to the past
• Illusion of Gaia
• Breath of Fire (1-3)
• Actraiser ( not 2, though…)

That’s off the top of my head, I’m sure I’ll remember more later, but that’s easily 100+ right there.

The only thing worse is when people grab one edge of a disc in the case and just rip it out instead of using the release button in the middle.

I got a $50 EOL Chromebook that I loaded CinnaMint (it’s right there… Why say "Mint Cinnamon "…) on.

I use it as my sketchy torrent getting machine, Because if something goes wrong, oh well.

I always took it as Tidus being intentionally over the top & awkward to get Yuna to laugh for real, which does happen at the end of the scene. It was purposely ridiculous.

Other common retail phrases:

Workin’ hard or hardly workin’?

• Little of both!
• Trying to do one, but this place makes me do the other.

How are you today?

• I’m here.
• How long you got?

If it doesn’t scan, that means it’s free!

• -Die inside-
• -Think of a new way to kill someone with an unlikely object-
• -immitate laugh scene from FFX-

Operating a computer used to be a specialized skill, you used to have to look under the hood pretty often to make things work. Now all that prep work is taken care of for you, so end users are further away from the partial techs we all used to be.

Dropping into a DOS command line to install software was a normal thing in Windows 95, now if you pull up a command line people think you’re a Microsoft Certified Technowizard™.

The AI didn’t know what to do with the prompt “Lizardman”

Sounds like you just need to do a case swap on the VRPC. A case w/o all the RGB gamer aesthetic solves most of your issues for about $50, since you already have decent hardware available.

For your use as a secondary system, not that I’m a Valve shill, but I kinda still suggest the Steam Deck… You wouldn’t have to mount a secondary screen, since it’s already built in, and it gives you the option to kick back however you want on the couch to play.

The amount of times I’ve sat on the couch playing on mine with one earbud in while my wife is watching TV is pretty significant, so a bit of asynchronous play would be available there as well. A small, black, zippered case can be tucked away a lot easier than a wall mounted swing arm as well.

I had looked into getting a Micro PC for a living room setup, but ended up getting the Steam Deck because it gave me more options for around the same price. I got mine about a year after they released & after getting it I realized I should have gotten it sooner.

Understandable, I was just suggesting it as a cost-effective choice. Consoles are usually more hardware than you pay for, and ≈$500 for a ready-to-go solution right out of the box isn’t bad.

The useless screen isn’t much different than a docked switch, or using an old laptop as a HTPC.

Bonus is if you ever want to upgrade the system, you can still use the deck as a portable solution later.

I have a bunch of coupons for hotdogs that I got years ago, because the were like $1 for 20 hotdogs.

Steam Deck + Docking station.

You can get a knock off dock for about $25, and a non-OLED deck is $400. Minimal setup to get. Emulators running, and the whole thing is portable if you want to relocate to a different room / a buddy’s house / a projector in the backyard.

That sounds like something a spambot would be programmed to say

I work 3rd shift, so I’m always motivated to go to bed in the morning.

There’s a paintball place near me that advertised that they refill soda stream tanks.

Don’t play paintball, and don’t have a soda stream, but I remember this for some reason.

Due to naming convention I would say Peanut Butter, supported by “Ham & Swiss” and “Beef & Cheddar”.

I would do terrible things for a VR Eternal Darkness.

I also would probably be too scared to actually play it.

TIM took up so much of my free time on my Packard Bell 486 back in the day

Ketchup is good on hot dogs

Chicago would like a word with you…

…alone…

…In a dark alley…

Does it seem a little sketchy to anyone else that so many people were tested in China? Do they really have that many athletes or are they trying to skew the numbers?